"Home is where one starts from. As we grow older the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. Not the intense moment, isolated, with no before and after, but a lifetime burning in every moment. And not the lifetime of one man only, but of old stones that cannot be deciphered." ----- T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965 "Four Quartets, East Coker" (1940)

"What is it about that place that brings tears to your eyes? I tell you, walking through a cemetery and seeing the same names there that I know...oh, it was so poignant." --- Mavis Fruge

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Family Tree Magazine: "Lisa Wallen Logsdon is a philosophical geneablogger who posts thorough research and plenty of it. She shares both the research journey and family stories. Her posts offer inspiration for anyone wanting to write up their research, but not sure how to do it."

My purpose and hope for this blog...

This blog is mainly for my children, Michael and Hallie. It is of their ancestors that I write. This would include my family [Wallen-Runyan] and their Dad's family [Logsdon-Melvin] and all surnames related to those as we go back in time to great grandparents, great-great grandparents and so on. It is my hope that ALL family members would visit and read about those ancestors and that this blog will spark their interest in the history and story of their kin...who they were, their struggles, their lifestyles and the paths they chose to take on their steady march into the present.

Monday, December 31, 2012

Happy New Year to all! I am finishing out the year with a couple of photos of my paternal uncle, (my only uncle), Billy Athol Wallen, circa 1955, when he served our country as a Paratrooper in the U.S. Army. Isn't he a handsome fella?